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BayArea
2017 Jun 5, 12:40pm
Dan, none of the links have anything to do with homosexuals being punished for practicing homosexuality, except in Chechnya which is Muslim.
I'd remind folks that US Prosecutors were charging people and getting convictions or guilty pleas for Sodomy at least in the 90s if not later. Marv Alpert, anyone?
"...After tests proved that the bite marks were his, he pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault and battery charges, while the sodomy charge was dropped.[19][24] Albert was given a 12-month suspended sentence"
MisdemeanorRebel
2017 Jun 5, 12:53pm
Yes, but Marv WAS charged with Sodomy, which was dropped when he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge.
There were Sodomy prosecutions in the 80s and 90s.
Sodomy as a crime in the USA wasn't invalidated until 2003.
Dan8267
2017 Jun 5, 2:15pm
Dan, you make good points, but the worst of your links are about Muslim Chechnya, not Christian Russia.
Yes, because the most grievous attrocities are committed by Chechnya President Ramzan Kadyrov, who was hand picked by Putin to control Chechnya.
In any case, there are examples of gays being political prisoners in Russia itself, but either way, it goes right back to Putin and his cabinet.
junkmail
2017 Jun 5, 4:08pm
Ok, sorry to disappoint but the anti-gay rally photos are a retouch job. I know they are selling it on Shutterstock... I'm a graphics expert and the warping of the type to conform to the perspective of the original card held up is a one-button-click pitfall of photoshop. The original rally may have been anti-gay but the original signs have been wiped and more precise, readable, coherent messages have replaced them. Come to think of it why would you make english signs in Latvia? Notice the bibles are not called The Bible, but written in Slavic HOBbIÑ 3ABET (New Testament)
See? This is where free thinking comes in handy.
but written in Slavic HOBbIÑ 3ABET (New Testament)
About 1/3 of Latvian population is Slavic which explains the Russian version of Bible, and they are by no means the most "tolerant" part of society.
But I agree that the first sign looks like it is photoshopped on.
Edit: an article in Russian with non-photoshopped pictures: http://www.russkiymir.ru/media/magazines/article/183675/
junkmail
2017 Jun 5, 4:30pm
I agree, doesn't look very pro when bibles are involved. I just get suspicious when people photoshop signs in general.
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As we all know, Protestant Liberalism has done a lot of work refuting historic Christianity. Shouldn't atheists support Protestant Liberalism, then? After all, what better way to get rid of historic Christianity than to undermine it from within?
What do I mean by "Protestant Liberalism" and "historic Christianity"? I mean in the same sense that J. Gresham Machen used the terms in his book "Christianity and Liberalism."
Thoughts?